Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) this evening rejected a plan offered by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to set up a vote on repealing the 2010 health care law before the end of September.

&ldquo;Our Republican friends are hopelessly stuck in the past,&rdquo; Reid said before objecting to a GOP unanimous consent request. &ldquo;They continue to want to fight battles that are already over.&rdquo;

Reid noted that the Supreme Court deemed the law constitutional last month, after it was challenged by several Republican attorneys general.

He also said that the Senate has already defeated a similar amendment as part of the debate on reauthorizing federal aviation programs. The Senate also rejected in March a GOP proposal to repeal a provision in the health care law that requires insurance companies to provide and pay for contraception services.

His comments come as Republicans sought to offer a health care law repeal amendment to a cybersecurity bill, which stalled in the Senate today after failing to clear a procedural vote, in part over disagreement regarding what amendments could be offered.

McConnell argued that if Democrats support the law, they should want to vote on it.

&ldquo;What are they afraid of?&rdquo; McConnell said. &ldquo;Why won&rsquo;t they allow a vote?&rdquo;

&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t think of any reason why Senators would not want to stand up and be counted with a vote on the floor either for or against repeal,&rdquo; McConnell continued.

&ldquo;It&rsquo;s clear in my view that the Democrat health care law is making things worse and should be repealed in full. A week doesn&rsquo;t seem to pass that we don&rsquo;t learn about some problem this law creates or doesn&rsquo;t solve,&rdquo; McConnell said.